Comprehensive Systems Design: A New Educational Technology: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Comprehensive Systems Design: A New [Hardcover]

Educational technology in the broadest sense is knowledgeand competence forimproving the educational process: forusing hardware (equipment), software (methods), and underware (underlying organizational structures).This volume in the Special Programme on Advanced EducationalTechnology presents the results of a NATO Advanced ResearchWorkshop on educational systems design as a new educationaltechnology. The objective of the workshop was toadvance ourknowledge about the comprehensive systems design approachfor improving educational systems. The workshop wasorganized for the transdisciplinary interaction of threescientific groups representing design science,organizational/systems science, and educationaltechnology.Participants were selected based on their scholarship asmembers of one or more of these three groups.The book opens with theframing papers sent by the editorsto participants prior to the workshop, then presents fivesets of thematic contributions: the conceptual and empiricalcontexts of comprehensive systems design, the systems designfocus, a systems view of designing educational systems, theeducational context of systems design, and high technologyfocus in systems design.Systems Design: A Creative Response to the Current Educational Predicament.- Principles of Educational Systems Design.- Structuring the Program of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop: An Architecture of Decision-Oriented Disciplined Enquiry.- Education as a Process of Increasing Access to Societal Resources: Design and Methodology.- Human Learning and Its Relation to Evolution and Needs Satisfaction: Implications for the Design of Educational Systems.- The Empirical Grounding of System Performance Measurements.- The Designing Community: A Learning Community.- Definition of Education and Meta-Design of Educational Systems.- Assessing the Adequacy of a Social System Design.- Design Inquiry as an Intellectual Technology forlƒ